2026 Michael W. L. Chee: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	82	1531	1394	2	2	245	19640

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Neuroscience

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19640

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Singapore Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Singapore Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Michael W. L. Chee is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields focusing primarily on the mechanisms, measurement, and implications of sleep and related neurological processes.

Their main fields of study include:

Psychology
Neuroscience

The subfields covered in their work include:

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Physiology

The primary research topics of Michael W. L. Chee focus on aspects of sleep and brain function with specific emphasis on:

Sleep and related disorders
Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

They have contributed extensively to several publication venues, with significant numbers of papers appearing in:

SLEEP
Sleep Medicine
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Sleep Health
Nature and Science of Sleep

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Ju Lynn Ong
Ruth L F Leong
Juan Zhou
Stijn A. A. Massar
B.T. Thomas Yeo

Some recent papers by Michael W. L. Chee are:

"COVID-19-related mobility reduction: heterogenous effects on sleep and physical activity rhythms," 2020, published in SLEEP
"Association of Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures With Psychosis Onset in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Developing Psychosis," 2021, published in JAMA Psychiatry
"Time of day is associated with paradoxical reductions in global signal fluctuation and functional connectivity," 2020, published in PLoS Biology
"Multi-Night Validation of a Sleep Tracking Ring in Adolescents Compared with a Research Actigraph and Polysomnography," 2021, published in Nature and Science of Sleep
"Country differences in nocturnal sleep variability: Observations from a large-scale, long-term sleep wearable study," 2023, published in Sleep Medicine

Best Publications

Mandarin and English Single Word Processing Studied with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Michael W. L. Chee;Edsel W. L. Tan;Thorsten Thiel

644
Citations
Sleep deprivation elevates expectation of gains and attenuates response to losses following risky decisions

Vinod Venkatraman;Vinod Venkatraman;Y. M. Lisa Chuah;Scott A. Huettel;Michael W. L. Chee;Michael W. L. Chee

611
Citations
Functional Imaging of Working Memory after 24 Hr of Total Sleep Deprivation

Michael W. L. Chee;Wei Chieh Choo

583
Citations
Self-reported sleep duration and cognitive performance in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

June C. Lo;John A. Groeger;Grand H. Cheng;Derk-Jan Dijk

456
Citations
Cognitive Performance, Sleepiness, and Mood in Partially Sleep Deprived Adolescents: The Need for Sleep Study.

June C. Lo;Ju Lynn Ong;Ruth L.F. Leong;Joshua J. Gooley

430
Citations
Functional Specialization and Flexibility in Human Association Cortex

B. T. Thomas Yeo;Fenna M. Krienen;Simon B. Eickhoff;Siti N. Yaakub

429
Citations
The neural basis of interindividual variability in inhibitory efficiency after sleep deprivation.

Y. M. Lisa Chuah;Vinod Venkatraman;David F. Dinges;Michael W. L. Chee

397
Citations
Sleep deprivation reduces default mode network connectivity and anti-correlation during rest and task performance

Jack A. De Havas;Sarayu Parimal;Chun Siong Soon;Michael W. L. Chee

396
Citations
Relative Language Proficiency Modulates BOLD Signal Change when Bilinguals Perform Semantic Judgments

Michael Wei-Liang Chee;Nicholas Hsueh Hsien Hon;Hwee Ling Lee;Chun Siong Soon

395
Citations
Processing of visually presented sentences in Mandarin and English studied with fMRI.

Michael Wei-Liang Chee;David Caplan;Chun Siong Soon;Natarajan Sriram

379
Citations
Lapsing during sleep deprivation is associated with distributed changes in brain activation

Michael W. L. Chee;Jiat Chow Tan;Hui Zheng;Sarayu Parimal

340
Citations
Auditory and visual word processing studied with fMRI

Michael W.L. Chee;Kathleen M. O'Craven;Kathleen M. O'Craven;Ruth Bergida;Bruce R. Rosen

337
Citations
Functional imaging of working memory following normal sleep and after 24 and 35 h of sleep deprivation: Correlations of fronto-parietal activation with performance.

Michael W.L. Chee;Lisa Y.M. Chuah;Vinod Venkatraman;Wai Yen Chan

324
Citations
Overlap and dissociation of semantic processing of Chinese characters, English words, and pictures: evidence from fMRI.

Michael Wei-Liang Chee;Brendan Weekes;Kok Ming Lee;Chun Siong Soon

314
Citations
Functional neuroimaging insights into how sleep and sleep deprivation affect memory and cognition.

Michael W. L. Chee;Lisa Y. M. Chuah

313
Citations
Estimates of Segregation and Overlap of Functional Connectivity Networks in the Human Cerebral Cortex

B.T. Thomas Yeo;Fenna M. Krienen;Michael W.L. Chee;Randy L. Buckner

283
Citations
Functional connectivity during rested wakefulness predicts vulnerability to sleep deprivation.

B.T. Thomas Yeo;Jesisca Tandi;Michael W.L. Chee

274
Citations
Neural correlates of symbolic and non-symbolic arithmetic.

Vinod Venkatraman;Daniel Ansari;Michael W.L. Chee

257
Citations
Sleep Deprivation Biases the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Economic Preferences

Vinod Venkatraman;Scott A. Huettel;Lisa Y. M. Chuah;John W. Payne

254
Citations
Age and culture modulate object processing and object-scene binding in the ventral visual area.

Joshua O. Goh;Michael W. Chee;Jiat Chow Tan;Vinod Venkatraman

245
Citations